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Private George F. Flascher, Fort Snelling, has been discharged. Private Frank Randur, of Company D, Third infantry, Fort Snelling, has been ordered dishonorably discharged. S. H. H. Clarke, one of the Union Pacic receivers, is seriously ill at St. Louis.
The degree of LL. D. has been conferred upon ex-President Cleveland by Princeton college.
Cambridge university has conferred an honorary degree on Hon. Wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada.
The homeopathic physicians of Northwestern Iowa met at Hartley and organized a medical association.
The controller has declared a dividend of 20 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Sioux National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa.
A serious landslide has occurred near Brieg, Canton of Valais. Part of the forest there and a number of buildings have been buried.
P. Carey has resigned as chief of the fire department of Marquette, Mich. He has held the office ten years and has been twenty-seven years in the service.
The Dental Trade Association of America began its seventeenth annual convention at Lookout inn at Chattanooga, Tenn. Over 100 members were present.
Secretary of State Le Sueur of Missouri has granted the British and American Mortgage Company of London, Eng., authority to do business in that state.
Many Americans, among them United States Consul Genéral DeKay and Mrs. DeKay, attended the diamond jubilee banquet given by the British colony at the Kaiserhof at Berlin.
The union plasterers employed on all buildings in New York where the contractors refused to nominate foremen to be elected by the union, have struck.
Great dissatisfaction is felt with the programme of the jubilee procession in London because it gives no recognition to the civil and industrial side of the queen's reign.
Sheriff Conroy of Stark county, N. D., passed through Miles City, Mant., with fifteen deputies in hot pursuit of a band of horse thieves who had about 150 horses, making for the north.
The seven graduating cadets from West Point who have been selected for assignment to the engineer corps are: W. D. Connor, Oakes, Wolf, Morgan, Cheny, Altstaetler and Ferguson.
The eighth annual convention of the Second Iowa District Christian Endeavor societies met at Webster City, Iowa. About 300 delegates were in attendance and the session lasted three days.
Mrs. Gusta Hennessey of Kaukauna, Wis., has just been awarded $5,000 damages for the death of her husband, James Hennessey, who lost his life while switching in the yards of the Northwestern road.
The jury at Austin, Tex., in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, charged with violation of the anti-trust law, has brought in a verdict for the state, cancelling the company's permit to do business in Texas.
Sir Henry Irving unveiled the memorial statue of Mrs. Sarah Scott Siddons, the famous English actress, on Paddington Green, close to Paddington old cemetery, where her remains were interred sixty-six years ago.
Tommy Dixon and Johnny Lavack fought a fifteen-round draw at Rochester, N. Y. Both boys were careful and mixed it up only in a few rounds. The contest was very close and the decision was received with satisfaction.
The Barlow Corn Planter works at Quincy, Ill., was closed by creditors who are secured by mortgages on the real estate and personal property of the company. The claims are for $35,000 which is secured and $30,000 unsecured.
Asa W. Fiske of Boston, son of a noted money lender by a former marriage, has brought suit at San Francisco to have his father's estate held in trust until certain claims amounting to $1,099,064, have been satisfied. He was cut off in the will.
It is reported that Capt. Norman Perkins will be reinstated some time this week as division superintendent of the railway mail service for the tenth division with headquarters at St. Paul, to succeed Robert H. Barclay, who will be transferred to some other superintendency.
Coroner Hewitt, at Urbana, Ohio, has rendered a verdict on the death of Harry Bell, who was killed when the first attack was made on the county jail on the night before the lynching of Click Mitchell. The verdict is in accordance with the facts, and no one is held responsible.